OGUN GOVERNORSHIP: APPEAL COURT RESERVES JUDGMENT IN AKINLADE’S APPEAL AGAINST ABIODUN

The lead Counsel to Allied People’s Movement (APM), Sebastine Hon told the court that the All Progressives Congress (APC) Candidate (Abiodun) submitted a false academic qualification to aid his qualification to contest the 2019 Governorship election.

Penpushing further reports that, the counsel contented that there was a difference between what he wrote in the form CFO submitted in 2015 to contest the Senatorial election and the one submitted in 2019 for the Governorship election.

The counsel argued that Abiodun was not qualified to contest the Governorship election based on his false qualification and urged the court to uphold the appeal, but Abiodun’s counsel, Taiwo Osipitan, in his argument said his client was qualified to contest the Governorship election.

Penpushing also reports that, Osipitan, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) said the issue of academic qualification was a pre-election matter which ought to have been brought to court within 14 days after the document was submitted, adding that the appellants did not have any grounds of appeal and urged the court to dismiss the appeal.

 The five-member panel of the appeal court, presided over by Justice  Abubakar Yahaya, has other respondents in the appeal as  All Progressives Congress(APC) and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), while the court  reserved judgment after listening to the argument of all the parties, which said it would be communicated to the counsel.